The first one because of the greatest special effect in the history of cinema: frog rides bicycle.

I was in the Jehovah's Witness Protection Program for awhile. I'd go knock on doors and not tell anybody who I was.

I'm pretty sure she meant all makers of dairy products.

You left out Mean Joe Green!

Eli Wallach, Jayne Mansfield, Alan Ludden and Mary Lou Retton.

With "Grizzly Man" you get Richard Thompson music, which is reason enough to start there.

Would it kill other peoples' kids to protect me for once?

I've seen it. My favorite line is when the woman (can't remember what character she's playing—maybe a journalist) knocks on Kris's door and he opens it looking haggard as hell.

I like the countrypolitan stuff, too ("Rollin' With the Flow" is the perfect late seventies countrypolitan song, in my book), though it's kind of comical how bent out of shape Charlie Rich got at the CMA awards in 1974 or 1975 when John Denver won. That's the one where a very drunk Charlie Rich, announcing the…

Well, I don't really get the criteria for who's included/excluded in this series—I assume it's just whatever the writer feels like writing about. But if the aim were to illustrate particular trends/arcs/other-words-like-that in country music, I think Keith has been more influential, for better or worse, than Charlie…

I went to college in Denton for a year. It was the last year it was North Texas State. The next year they were becoming the University of North Texas. Everybody was wondering whether the campus radio station, KNTS, would retain its call letters.

I didn't see "Walk Hard" until a few weeks ago and got to it in kind of a bass-ackwards way—I recently got turned on to the singer/songwriter Dan Bern (so should you) and learned he wrote many of the songs for the movie. I watched the movie and loved it even though I couldn't make out a lot of the lyrics to the songs…

That's funny, I don't care who y'are.

Both of the aforementioned things are wonderful things about this genre. I don't think I could choose which is the most wonderful.

I've never seen it, and reading about it here has not made me think I've missed anything. (And isn't Michael Ian Black kind of this generation's Charles Nelson Reilley or Paul Lynde in that he is only vaguely famous but somehow is offered up as a "celebrity" on various game shows and other celebrity-needin' shows?)

Curtis, in Bridges's case, he needs a lifetime pass to excuse "Texasville."

Also sounds good with a Scottish accent: The Proclaimers ("I Would Walk 500 Miles!" band) have a great version you can find on youtube.

It's pretty entertaining, though "aggressively half-assed" is probably the best thing I've read written in any of these pieces—it sums it up perfectly. Style himself, an aspiring songwriter, comes off as a dork (not intentionally) who is star-struck by everybody even remotely connected to the music industry. But…

Bent, yes, I'm not meaning to dis the program aspects of, well, the program, only to emphasize something that doesn't make it into the popular conception of AA, which is that AA is essentially a group of people, human beings, all with one thing in a common, in a room at a given time. There's no pope, no CEO, no memos…

I got sober not quite two years ago through AA. Maybe I'd have gotten sober another way—who the hell knows? It's worked for millions over the last 75 years and it worked for smartass me somehow. Knocking it based on its dubious rap in the popular culture or on the records of a few notorious members or dropouts is…